Maybe if you start Territory Faces with the edge appropriate to the edge of the Home Face is starts on, things will work out more easily. So, instead of putting Pawns and Spears on the first two ranks, do that for only two, and put them on the last two ranks for another two, on the leftmost files for another two, and on the rightmost files for another two.
But even that is not an ideal solution. If, say, you start 02 on a rank and 03 on a file, then they will border along a file on 02 and a rank on 03. So, there is no way to escape files bordering with ranks unless you come up with a new non-Cartesian coordinate system.
But even that is not an ideal solution. If, say, you start 02 on a rank and 03 on a file, then they will border along a file on 02 and a rank on 03. So, there is no way to escape files bordering with ranks unless you come up with a new non-Cartesian coordinate system.